(P/B) AFTER VIRTUE

Παρουσίαση

In this classic work, Alasdair MacIntyre examines the historical and conceptual roots of the idea of virtue, diagnoses the reasons for its absence in personal and public life, and offers a tentative proposal for its recovery. While the individual chapters are wide-ranging, once pieced together they comprise a penetrating and focused argument about the price of modernity.
In the Third Edition prologue, MacIntyre revisits the central theses of the book and concludes that although he has learned a great deal and has supplemented and refined his theses and arguments in other works, he has "as yet found no reason for abandoning the major contentions" of this book. He remains "committed to the thesis that it is only from the standpoint of a very different tradition, one whose beliefs and presuppositions were articulated in their classical form by Aristotle, that we can understand both the genesis and the predicament of moral modernity". (From the publisher)

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Περιεχόμενα

Prologue: After Virtue after a Quarter of a Century
Preface
1. A Disquieting Suggestion
2. The Nature of Moral Disagreement Today and the Claims of Emotivism
3. Emotivism: Social Content and Social Context
4. The Predecessor Culture and the Enlightenment Project of Justifying Morality
5. Why the Enlightenment Project of Justifying Morality Had to Fail
6. Some Consequences of the Failure of the Enlightenment Project
7. 'Fact', Explanation and Expertise
8. The Character of Generalizations in Social Science and their Lack of Predictive Power
9. Nietzsche or Aristotle?
10. The Virtues of Heroic Societies
11. The Virtues of Athens
12. Aristotle's Account of the Virtues
13. Medieval Aspects and Occasions
14. The Nature of the Virtues
15. The Virtues, the Unity of a Human Life and the Concept of a Tradition
16. From the Virtues to Virtue and after Virtue
17. Justice as a Virtue: Changing Conceptions
18. After Virtue: Nietzsche or Aristotle, Trotsky and St. Benedict
19. Postscript to the Second Edition
Bibliography
Index